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The Alliance Archives series is a military science fiction
set in the not-too-distant future. Against a backdrop of advanced technology and
interplanetary commerce, mankind once again proves that its greatest enemy is
still itself. As always, the weapons and machinery of warfare continue to
advance, while the pain and suffering of the soldiers remains the same.
The series centers on a group in concealed exile. Unofficially
hunted and lawfully persecuted under the growing religious and political fervor
at the turn of the 21st century; their only crime was being part of
a medical experiment to find a cure for the human condition.
As the story goes, the world renowned pediatric specialist,
Dr. Tyre McPherren and his team developed the long-envision Rosetta Stone of
direct machine-to-mind communications. The Synaptic-Interface (SI) was
literally a self-assembling, nano-scale antenna that could relay data across the
synapse of the human brain.
Obtaining official permission for human clinical trials was
all but impossible, forcing McPherren to go underground for the next phase of
testing. The SI worked, and after additional testing a new and most unforeseen
'side-effect' emerged; the procedure could be passed onto an unborn child
through its mother.
History never had the chance to debate the value of his
discovery; at the International Conference of Physician, Dr. McPherren openly
admitted and took personal responsibility for conducting illegal research; he
then announced his discovery to the world.
A month later in the European press, an article appeared announcing Dr. Tyre McPherren’s disappearance while in police custody. It also posed the question of what happened to his test subjects--those who received the SI--a now infamous misspelling would forever label those
subjects as the "Children of Ty'Pherrein."
Mike McPhail
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